Auxentius

Saint Auxentius was bishop of Mopsuestia in Cilicia and died about 360. He is remembered on 18 December, in the Orthodox Church and in the Catholic Church. Cardinal Baronius placed him in the Roman Martyrology because of a story told by Philostorgius: Auxentius had been an officer in the army of Licinius and gave up his rank rather than lay a bunch of grapes at the feet of a statue of Bacchus, as the emperor commanded. Tillemont is inclined to think that Auxentius was an Arian, because he supported the heretic Aetius. Our sources give no further details of his episcopate.